In less than 1 week, we've self-funded
20,650 medical face masks,
6,000 nitrile gloves,
400 isolation suits &
2,560 bottles of hand sanitizer
to give away to HCPs in need across the country
Nurses and doctors are our front line and last lifeline.
We're all in. Are you with us?
As of writing this on 3/31, New York is poised to exceed the total number of cases confirmed in all of China by next week. Symptomatic patients are going back home instead of to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where a refrigerated truck has been recruited to hold all the bodies. (Picture: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)

1 in 5
It's estimated that around 1 in 5 COVID-19 cases will be healthcare workers. Places like Minnesota are already reporting that happening.
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As a nation, we are facing a realistic worst-case estimate of 40-70% of Americans falling seriously ill or dying from COVID-19. That's 214 million citizens -- old, chronically ill, young, and healthy.
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Unlucky for us, nurses and doctors are not immune to this novel human virus. There's no treatment or cure. Nearly 200 healthcare professionals have died during the two week "shelter in place" -- designed to "flatten the curve" and ease hospital impacting. In more than 100 years, the institution of modern medicine has never been faced with this kind of challenge.
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Currently, our human heroes on the front lines of the COVID-19 public health emergency are almost singularly shouldered with burden of lack of access to protective equipment, ventilators, CPAP machines, and blood.
It's time for we the people to lend a hand.

Nurses and physicians have taken to working 48-hour shifts in the same surgical mask in order to save as many lives as possible. (Picture: AsiaWire/@rojaklah88)

Famed pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Jim Goodrich died on 3/30 in NY from COVID-19. (Picture: Krisanne Johnson/Verbatim for CNN). As of writing this on 3/31 12:03 PM, NY has 75,795 cases vs. China's total 81,518 cases.
In a time of "social distancing," "shelter in place," national emergency, pandemic, lost income, and talks of recession -- your local community health centers need you more than ever.
Help us buy 100,000 additional masks to support our front lines now.
SOURCES:​
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/oeh.2004.10.4.421
https://www.fox9.com/news/1-in-5-covid-19-cases-in-minnesota-are-health-care-workers-mdh-says
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/summary.html
https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls/2020/callinfo_032720.asp
https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007052136/coronavirus-elmhurst-hospital-queens.html
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/05/medics-left-sore-marks-skin-coronavirus-face-masks-12188952/
Our Approach


We only send masks and supplies that are are FDA guidelines-adherent, hospital-approved, and backed by healthcare providers.

As of 3/30 our datasets are merging with ProjectN95, PPECoalition, and GetUsPPE to create a centralized, standardized repository for clinicians, researchers, and public health officials. We're mapping shortage hotspots based on requests from the front lines and sending reinforcements before it's too late.
